Sentences with phrase «percent of school age children»

Over 70 percent of all school age children attend a public or private school in the United States five days a week for at least six hours per day.

According to the Centers for Disease Control, between 4 percent and 6 percent of school age children have severe food allergies.

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Gordon L. Flett, a psychology professor at York University in Toronto, says more than 50 percent of today's Western school - aged children exhibit the perfectionist traits hinted at above.

Still a third national survey (1997) discovered not only that a strong majority of African - Americans (57 percent) and Hispanics (65 percent) favored vouchers, but also that it was precisely the black age group most likely to have children in the public schools (those 26 to 35) who supported vouchers most strongly (86.5 percent!).

The distinction between the nuclear and traditional family was also blurred in the recent report on human sexuality by the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) titled Keeping Body and Soul Together: «Although many Christians in the post-World War II era have a special emotional attachment to the nuclear family, with its employed father, mother at home, and two or more school - aged children, that profile currently fits only 5 percent of North American households.»

In some slum areas ten to thirty percent of the school - age children are mentally or culturally retarded.

According to non-profit advocacy group Families Fighting Flu, a particularly onerous flu season like this one can result in as many as 30 percent of school - aged children getting sick.

Yet 88 percent of Ontario parents in another survey believed that their school - age children were «active.»»

If at least 50 percent of the children enrolled in school are certified for free or reduced - price school meals, you may serve afterschool snacks to all students through age 18, and be reimbursed at the free rate.

In a city where 22 percent of children between ages 3 and 7 are obese, double the national rate for similarly aged children, we would like to commend the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) for meeting and exceeding health and wellness standards in the sSchools (CPS) for meeting and exceeding health and wellness standards in the schoolsschools.

According to a survey released in June of this year by NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health 26 percent of parents whose high school aged child plays sports hope their teen will become a professional atSchool of Public Health 26 percent of parents whose high school aged child plays sports hope their teen will become a professional atschool aged child plays sports hope their teen will become a professional athlete.

Despite the overwhelming odds, 26 percent of parents whose high school aged child plays sports hope their youngster will become a professional athlete, according to a new survey — Sports and Health in America — conducted by NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Hschool aged child plays sports hope their youngster will become a professional athlete, according to a new survey — Sports and Health in America — conducted by NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public HSchool of Public Health.

Many school - age kids get too many calories from what they drink — not only from soda and other sugar - laden beverages but from fruit juice: The AAP recommends children 7 years and older drink no more than 8 ounces of unsweetened, pasteurized 100 percent fruit juice each day.

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder occurs in an estimated 3 to 5 percent of school - age children, according to the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.

29 percent of children aged 13 - 17 report that they worry about getting into a good college and deciding what to do after high school, while only 5 percent of parents of 13 - 17 year - olds believe this is a source of stress for their child.

When they can afford it, married women with infants take maternity leaves of a year or so, but then head steadily back to work: 75 percent of mothers with school - age children are on the job.

In fact, school - related anxiety affects 2 to 5 percent of school - age children, but it's much more common in times of transition: when a child starts kindergarten, middle school or high school, according to the Anxiety Disorders Association of America.

That bottleneck of secondary education, we need to open it because Ghana has been successful in achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), we have 97 percent school enrolment, which means 97 percent of children of school going age are in school which is impressive.

President Mahama noted that over 75 kilometers of asphaltic concrete roads had been constructed in the Sekondi - Takoradi metropolis alone while 97 percent of children of school - going age were in school.

It's estimated that nearly one third of school aged children between 12 and 18 are bullied at some point in school, and 16 percent of New York State students, have been victims of cyberbullying off of school property.

It's estimated that nearly one - third of school aged children between 12 and 18 are bullied at some point in school, and 16 percent of New York state students, have been victims of cyber bullying off of school property.

In developed countries, about 90 percent of children have at least one episode before school age, usually between the ages of six months and four years.

Surprisingly, it is not just high school athletes suffering concussions; athletes ages 12 to 15 make up almost half (47 percent) of the sports - related concussions seen in the ER, a statistic made even more disturbing by the knowledge that younger children with concussions take a longer time to recover than older children.

Silent strokes are frequent in sickle cell anemia (the most common form of sickle cell disease), occurring in approximately 3 percent of school - age children with the disease, and can cause poor school performance and limit performance of complex tasks.

These factors created an epidemic in the U.S., with 11 percent of all school - age children diagnosed with ADHD.

About 1 in 5 school - aged children are obese — about 17 percent of all children in America, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Low back pain in school - aged children is a common occurrence, and the prevalence of low back pain increases once children reach school age — one percent at age seven years; six percent at age 10 years; and 18 percent at ages 14 - 16 years.

The study found that Washington families with two adults, a preschooler and a school - aged child saw the costs of meeting their most basic requirements jump as much as 72 percent between 2001 and 2014, depending on where they live.

Studies suggest that about 5 percent of school - age children have ADHD; the disorder is diagnosed in about three times as many boys as girls.

DIPG affects 200 - 400 school - aged children in the United States each year and has a five - year survival rate of less than 1 percent; half of patients die within nine months of diagnosis.

This was similar to National Health Service estimates that 2 percent to 5 percent of school - aged British children have ADHD, but far below the 11 percent reported in the United States.

It is the most commonly diagnosed developmental disorder, affecting 8 - 12 percent of school - aged children.

Eighty percent of women in US prisons today are mothers of school - age children.

Using census data to sort districts within each state by the federal poverty rate among school - age children, the group identified the poorest and richest districts - those with the highest and lowest poverty rates, respectively, whose enrollments compose 25 percent of the state's total enrollment - and matched that information with education revenues from state and local (but not federal) sources.

On average over the 31 - year period, children the PSID followed into early adulthood completed 13.2 years of schooling by age 24, and 22.4 percent had completed college.

Our analysis finds that for children from low - income families, increasing per - pupil spending by 10 percent in all 12 school - age years reduces the annual incidence of poverty in adulthood by 6.1 percentage points.

Today, only 42 percent of the younger children and 8 percent of high school - age children attend school.

Specifically, increasing per - pupil spending by 10 percent in all 12 school - age years increases the probability of high school graduation by 7 percentage points for all students, by roughly 10 percentage points for low - income children, and by 2.5 percentage points for nonpoor children.

Nationwide, these children account for roughly 19 percent of all K - 12 students (though in the western United States, they represent nearly onethird of all school - age children).

And, in fact, parents of school - aged children are even more positive than other Americans about their local public schools, with 58 percent assigning them an «A» or «B» grade.

One can compare the same two cities regarding Hispanic teacher representation as well: 18 percent of Fort Lauderdale teachers are Hispanic, relative to 30 percent of Fort Lauderdale school - aged children, and 5 percent of Milwaukee teachers are Hispanic, relative to 22 percent of Milwaukee school - aged children.

[1] Using data from the American Community Survey, they show that in 2015 just over half of American children aged 5 to 17 were white, but nearly 80 percent of young teachers (whom they define as individuals aged 25 to 34, with a bachelor's degree, and teaching at the prekindergarten through high school level) were white.

«For children ages fourteen to seventeen,» he wrote, «only 11 percent of MPS [Milwaukee Public Schools] parents are actively involved both in the school setting and at home.»

Meanwhile, while black students comprise around 13 percent of all school - aged children, black teachers represent only around 8 percent of all young teachers, and while Hispanic students comprise around 24 percent of all school - aged children, Hispanic teachers represent only around 9 percent of all young teachers.

The research, conducted as part of the BNF's annual Healthy Eating Week, surveyed over 5,000 school children aged 5 - 16 years old, and found that more than one in ten (13 percent) 8 - 11 year olds answered that pasta comes from an animal, and almost one fifth (18 percent) of 5 - 7 year olds say that fish fingers are made of chicken.

Since the 1976 - 77 school year, when Congress first required public schools to count the number of children with learning disabilities (LD), the share of school - age children labeled LD has risen from 1.8 percent to 5.2 percent.

With that information, we can obtain a good estimate of the achievement of migrants from various states, because, on average, 86 percent of children age 14 or younger attend school in their state of birth.

A recently released U.S. Department of Education survey indicates that, between the ages of five and 18, 91 percent of a child's life takes place outside school.

«Sixty - one percent of children ages 6 — 17 from the lowest - income homes say they read for fun mostly in school or equally at school and at home, while 32 per cent of kids ages 6 — 17 from the highest - income homes say the same.»

As a baseline, we note that 96 percent of all families with school - age children have at least one traditional public school within five miles of home (appendix figure 1).